Two balls of Suri Merino from Plymouth Yarn have sat in my stash and tortured me for a while now. I finally decided a few weeks ago that enough was enough.

Two weeks ago, I blissfully cast 118 stitches onto a 16-inch 5mm circular need, and started knitting a marvellous pattern #62 from Suzanna E Lewis’ Knitting Lace: A Workshop with Patterns and Projects. Then kept knitting. Sometime after I joined the second ball I looked at this cowl-in-progress and realized that the cowl wasn’t 16-18 inches as fit around my needle, but much much larger.

Why did this happen? Well, 118 stitches would work on 3mm needles with a fingering to sport weight. Somehow I kept the stitch number in my head and that was all.

I believe that this works out fine as I can twist it around my neck for a super soft beautiful cowl. However, I’m still debating ripping and reknitting. It’s not yet very cold here in Brooklyn, so this hasn’t made it into the rotation. It’s ultimate fate remains unknown.

Now to decide what to do with the remaining half ball…

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